The goodlife -1930 full renovation
Discussion
wolfracesonic said:
The customer sourced them from here, Reborn Bakelite, they do more Art Deco styles as well, though the company in my first link, Broughtons actually make them. I got my brass Art Deco handles from there, they seem to have gone up in price!
They look really nice, happy with the finish? I didn’t see your original link, joys of using a phone and not a computer screen.Sorry about your neighbours making a fuss about noise at reasonable times of the day.
Are they causing problems because they're pissed off they didn't get to buy the place themselves, so it's spiteful behaviour instead of really being put out by the noise?
(Unless I misread your earlier post?)
Are they causing problems because they're pissed off they didn't get to buy the place themselves, so it's spiteful behaviour instead of really being put out by the noise?
(Unless I misread your earlier post?)
RC1807 said:
Sorry about your neighbours making a fuss about noise at reasonable times of the day.
Are they causing problems because they're pissed off they didn't get to buy the place themselves, so it's spiteful behaviour instead of really being put out by the noise?
(Unless I misread your earlier post?)
Morning, I do believe one of the reasons for them be a pain to deal with is because they didn’t buy it but I also think there’s other reasons. They have tried to get planning permission to build a two storey bay windowed side extension at one point of which it got rejected (comments on the rejection decision basically say it wouldn’t be in keeping with the rest of the area and would over power the proportions of our hour (can’t see any comments coming from the old owners). Next door does have a wider garden than us so if they did the extension like that it would of been very large but also a good space (ours is less than 2m so wouldn’t get any useful space - had seen a house that had done this work when house hunting so know it would not be worth it). In conversation both the dad and son had said the same thing to us - “ you don’t get the money back from a loft conversion, while don’t you extend to the side?” Which I think it’s a bit bull. We looked at the last 20 planning applications to work out what would or wouldn’t get a proved. The noise is only an issue because are at home most of the time. I’m still catching up on the thread there will be some more fun dealing with them to come.Are they causing problems because they're pissed off they didn't get to buy the place themselves, so it's spiteful behaviour instead of really being put out by the noise?
(Unless I misread your earlier post?)
Afternoon all, through various reasons and problems, the house had taken a lot more time an effort than I would like but a lot more work has occurred. I've had few chats with members on here (can't find the links to them and the threads but would thank them again for their help if they are reading this) about the next parts of the work. The area that's cause use the most fan and games has been the neighbours but I won't go into full details here other than we started to apply for the second party wall award for the ground floor extension which didn't go as smooth sailing as I would of liked but we got there in the end. Because of the their actions we had to get a surveyor involved.
Work carried on progressing with the loft conversation with the boarding out, insolation and plastering starting. The new stairs go put in as well which really started to make the jump to completing the area more noticeable (including access more importantly). With the glass installed in front of the Juliet baloney window the scaffolding could start to come down and move on to the next bits. A digger and dumper truck were brought in and started to remove all of the old concrete from the old garage, foot path and patio area in front of the house and start to install the soakaway - top tip, its a lot cheaper to use a grab lorry than pay for skip as long as you have the space to store the material on site. While carrying out test holes with building control it was high lighted that next doors trees could be an issue for the existing house/s in the future (the extensions footings can always go deeper or be designed to take into account the issues) because of the location (less than 5m away). The other issue is that their was pipe drain comes out the back of their house, across the back of their into our garden before joining up with ours on the side of our house, the roots will damage their drain before they start damaging any of our house. Que more letters and commutations with them but with a response of "its our garden, and we will do what we like with it". Will be fun in the future if there is an issue and they wanted to point the finger our way..
Because of the above issues and party wall delays we started on the first floor works as well. What seemed like a simple reskim on all the walls turned into the plaster was blown in more locations that was worth trying to save so executive decision was made to start to take the walls back to brickwork through the house. Things soon got out of hand and I ended up taking down every wall including all of the larther & plaster walls due to the amount of flex on the walls. This also meant though that while we was looking at installing thermal insolation on the outside of the house, the bay window that was curved would be a lot easier to install some form of insolation from the inside. All of the windows ended up be properly sealed up and extra lagging installed in the voids that you would never be able to get to otherwise. More time and effort has been put into the house by all but really please with the (current) end result by all.
Pics to follow.
Work carried on progressing with the loft conversation with the boarding out, insolation and plastering starting. The new stairs go put in as well which really started to make the jump to completing the area more noticeable (including access more importantly). With the glass installed in front of the Juliet baloney window the scaffolding could start to come down and move on to the next bits. A digger and dumper truck were brought in and started to remove all of the old concrete from the old garage, foot path and patio area in front of the house and start to install the soakaway - top tip, its a lot cheaper to use a grab lorry than pay for skip as long as you have the space to store the material on site. While carrying out test holes with building control it was high lighted that next doors trees could be an issue for the existing house/s in the future (the extensions footings can always go deeper or be designed to take into account the issues) because of the location (less than 5m away). The other issue is that their was pipe drain comes out the back of their house, across the back of their into our garden before joining up with ours on the side of our house, the roots will damage their drain before they start damaging any of our house. Que more letters and commutations with them but with a response of "its our garden, and we will do what we like with it". Will be fun in the future if there is an issue and they wanted to point the finger our way..
Because of the above issues and party wall delays we started on the first floor works as well. What seemed like a simple reskim on all the walls turned into the plaster was blown in more locations that was worth trying to save so executive decision was made to start to take the walls back to brickwork through the house. Things soon got out of hand and I ended up taking down every wall including all of the larther & plaster walls due to the amount of flex on the walls. This also meant though that while we was looking at installing thermal insolation on the outside of the house, the bay window that was curved would be a lot easier to install some form of insolation from the inside. All of the windows ended up be properly sealed up and extra lagging installed in the voids that you would never be able to get to otherwise. More time and effort has been put into the house by all but really please with the (current) end result by all.
Pics to follow.
Schwarz930 said:
Yes, great progress in a short amount of time. If you are ever getting a bit fed up, just look back through the older photos to see how much you two have achieved in less than a year. It takes some people that long to decorate one room.
I do this on what feels like a weekly basis… lol I know that we are very lucky to be able to do so much without living in all the mess. We did speak with a couple that had done a similar project and live in the mess. Definitely were not able to do everything to the same high standard And the work continues!
Will the party wall finally sorted out with the use of a surveyor (as the neighbours wanted additional unreasonable requirements), our builder started on the foundations of the ground floor extension was able to start just after Christmas. With the way the weather had been running up to Christmas and clay soil the of the back garden, the digger and dumper truck apparently got stuck a couple of times in the process of digging out (I'm glad I wasn't there to witness the carnage). After the fun of the wet weather the concert pour was done in colder frosty conditions, this was done in two parts to still allow the equipment to escape the garden once the wholes of foundations had been dug out. Once both sections were completed work on the brickwork started straight away, it always surprises me how quick this side of things springs up.
With the tiles and grouting installed in the loft on suit, the furniture could start to be in stalled. It's a small room but everything fits in with space to spare and space for storage if we get some custom cupboards made for a later date. More than happy with how its turned out. I carried on stripping out the plaster off the bricks and also taking down on the ceiling in the downstairs area (the plaster had originally said that it would be fine and to just overboard the original celling but after doing upstairs found that nothing was flat and straight). The upstairs area started to get plastered to perfection. Anyway, I will add the photos of the progress
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Will the party wall finally sorted out with the use of a surveyor (as the neighbours wanted additional unreasonable requirements), our builder started on the foundations of the ground floor extension was able to start just after Christmas. With the way the weather had been running up to Christmas and clay soil the of the back garden, the digger and dumper truck apparently got stuck a couple of times in the process of digging out (I'm glad I wasn't there to witness the carnage). After the fun of the wet weather the concert pour was done in colder frosty conditions, this was done in two parts to still allow the equipment to escape the garden once the wholes of foundations had been dug out. Once both sections were completed work on the brickwork started straight away, it always surprises me how quick this side of things springs up.
With the tiles and grouting installed in the loft on suit, the furniture could start to be in stalled. It's a small room but everything fits in with space to spare and space for storage if we get some custom cupboards made for a later date. More than happy with how its turned out. I carried on stripping out the plaster off the bricks and also taking down on the ceiling in the downstairs area (the plaster had originally said that it would be fine and to just overboard the original celling but after doing upstairs found that nothing was flat and straight). The upstairs area started to get plastered to perfection. Anyway, I will add the photos of the progress
[url]Edited by mattvanders on Saturday 13th May 15:26
That's coming on well, will be lovely when finished.
Rather puts me to shame though as I removed an internal door and made a right hash of filling the old hinge and lock placements over 2 years ago now.
To this date I haven't flatted the lump of excess filler over and repainted the door frame...just keep walking past it with good intentions...
Rather puts me to shame though as I removed an internal door and made a right hash of filling the old hinge and lock placements over 2 years ago now.
To this date I haven't flatted the lump of excess filler over and repainted the door frame...just keep walking past it with good intentions...
RC1807 said:
Wow, that’s an amazing amount of work.
Look forward to your next updates
Cheers, unfortunately we looked at the work as a bit of chicken and egg when it come to doing things right that we just bit the bullet and started to do everything. More than we expected but at least its all being done right. There are so many little details and choices that we have made that i haven't even really talked about (like making the small bedroom door smaller as the stairs from the loft encroach into them or the stud wall coming down because it was too flexible for the plaster to be happy with it not cracking at a later date (meant we could add extra thermal insolation to help reduce noise travel between the rooms)Look forward to your next updates
Bert Cheese said:
That's coming on well, will be lovely when finished.
Rather puts me to shame though as I removed an internal door and made a right hash of filling the old hinge and lock placements over 2 years ago now.
To this date I haven't flatted the lump of excess filler over and repainted the door frame...just keep walking past it with good intentions...
I've never intended to do so much work but after house hunting for almost a year and a half a project house was the only way to get what we wanted. I'm sure there will be lump of excess filler as the end of the project that i never get around t sorting Rather puts me to shame though as I removed an internal door and made a right hash of filling the old hinge and lock placements over 2 years ago now.
To this date I haven't flatted the lump of excess filler over and repainted the door frame...just keep walking past it with good intentions...
And the work continues...
With the structural side of the extension completed the builders could start on the inside while still working on the outside as well. Before the tiles were installed the plan was to get the rear of the house thermally insulated and rendered, by doing it now it will save trying to get a load more scaffolding put back up or paternally damage the new tiles. With budget getting tighter with the more issues we also decided that we will only get this area done and tire in the side when funds allows, the front of the house has been done internally to try and keep the visuals of the house more original and the cost down as the curvature of the bay was the more costly part when speaking with companies . We did look in to a number of companies to carry out the work and the government grants but found most companies were not interested in the work or grant approved companies were not passing the cost saving on to the customers (was quoted up to £19K which we though was taking the p*ss a bit when we were expecting just over £10K for the size of house). In stead we needed up using the builder's renderer company (with the plaster helping). Again a cost saving compared to the bigger companies while still using the same materials. We also made sure that the render was the softer/flexible type as we had hear about the issues of the harder material cracking and not being able to repair.
As i said work continued on the inside with insolation, electricals and boarding out. We have been pretty flexible with most of the rest of the build so far with all of the other trades being recommendations of the builders (we had spoke with a couple that had done similar work but sorted out all the trades themselves and no one had spoken to each other which delayed things many times) with only only big outside company being the kitchen design & installers (all in house and not separate companies). Dates got set for the install, detailers were checked, everything looked like it was on target but getting tighter. With a week to go to install the builder asks if we can move it back a week after week had asked many times if everything as will all good... not what you want to hear. We spoke with the kitchen company and there was no way of moving anything. Que the builder calling lots of favours to get extra people on site from other jobs. The misses popped over on one of the days to see a trades person for other quoting work and she described it as a scene from Fight Club project mayhem house with someone work on every wall doing something!
Some how, they were able to get everything done in time with every wall plastered, electrics in, plumbing in, thermal layer in, under floor pipes in, and the top screed layer in and lever to perfectly match the existing house! We turned up on the Saturday ready to pain the walls to seal the walls before the kitchen went in on the Monday. Unfortunately with all the moisture from the plaster and flooring and not heating in the house still the walls were still damp and drying out, b*ollocks. We didn't have many options, we opened up all the doors and windows to vent out all looked up options. We spoke with the builder and made plans to get a dehumidifier and get more new plaster pain that can be applied to damp plaster. Even with the door open and the wind blowing through we could see it drying out. Que paint party with the everyone helping out to get two coats over every wall.
The Monday rolled on with the kitchen fitter turning up and everything being assembled and fitted over the week. One of other areas of concern was the utility room. In our heads we had designed it a certain way to be the most space conscious and work to the best that it could. We had originally planned it to have a shower in there as well as i mountain bike and it would be idea to have a ground floor shower room to dump all the dirty riding gear in the winter month rather than trope it around the house but space was too tight unless we changed a lot of thing. We wanted to use the kitchen company to fit it out to match the kitchen as well but they didn't do bathrooms as well but was happy to give it a go. The plan was to have the hot water tank, boiler above the washing machine, butler sink and toilet all in one room rough in this order. The plumber want the boiler and hot water tank swopped over the other way but this would look mess and not really work well. The other issue was the flue of the boiler had to be 30cm away from any open window which it currently wasn't with left window panel opening. The kitchen company wasn't sure about spaces between all the items and how they were going to make a cupboard to fit everything (we even told them because we were happy with it that it could be more of a varchar than a working cupboard to make it all work together). Decisions were made, we would swop out the window to be a right panel opening to give the correct distance to the flue (and also allowed use to frost it at the same time) and make everything a use able as possible with a smaller sink and cupboard. The fit out started by the plumber with the kitchen company coming back to make something around it all work. I'm more than happy how it come out.
Pics to follow.
With the structural side of the extension completed the builders could start on the inside while still working on the outside as well. Before the tiles were installed the plan was to get the rear of the house thermally insulated and rendered, by doing it now it will save trying to get a load more scaffolding put back up or paternally damage the new tiles. With budget getting tighter with the more issues we also decided that we will only get this area done and tire in the side when funds allows, the front of the house has been done internally to try and keep the visuals of the house more original and the cost down as the curvature of the bay was the more costly part when speaking with companies . We did look in to a number of companies to carry out the work and the government grants but found most companies were not interested in the work or grant approved companies were not passing the cost saving on to the customers (was quoted up to £19K which we though was taking the p*ss a bit when we were expecting just over £10K for the size of house). In stead we needed up using the builder's renderer company (with the plaster helping). Again a cost saving compared to the bigger companies while still using the same materials. We also made sure that the render was the softer/flexible type as we had hear about the issues of the harder material cracking and not being able to repair.
As i said work continued on the inside with insolation, electricals and boarding out. We have been pretty flexible with most of the rest of the build so far with all of the other trades being recommendations of the builders (we had spoke with a couple that had done similar work but sorted out all the trades themselves and no one had spoken to each other which delayed things many times) with only only big outside company being the kitchen design & installers (all in house and not separate companies). Dates got set for the install, detailers were checked, everything looked like it was on target but getting tighter. With a week to go to install the builder asks if we can move it back a week after week had asked many times if everything as will all good... not what you want to hear. We spoke with the kitchen company and there was no way of moving anything. Que the builder calling lots of favours to get extra people on site from other jobs. The misses popped over on one of the days to see a trades person for other quoting work and she described it as a scene from Fight Club project mayhem house with someone work on every wall doing something!
Some how, they were able to get everything done in time with every wall plastered, electrics in, plumbing in, thermal layer in, under floor pipes in, and the top screed layer in and lever to perfectly match the existing house! We turned up on the Saturday ready to pain the walls to seal the walls before the kitchen went in on the Monday. Unfortunately with all the moisture from the plaster and flooring and not heating in the house still the walls were still damp and drying out, b*ollocks. We didn't have many options, we opened up all the doors and windows to vent out all looked up options. We spoke with the builder and made plans to get a dehumidifier and get more new plaster pain that can be applied to damp plaster. Even with the door open and the wind blowing through we could see it drying out. Que paint party with the everyone helping out to get two coats over every wall.
The Monday rolled on with the kitchen fitter turning up and everything being assembled and fitted over the week. One of other areas of concern was the utility room. In our heads we had designed it a certain way to be the most space conscious and work to the best that it could. We had originally planned it to have a shower in there as well as i mountain bike and it would be idea to have a ground floor shower room to dump all the dirty riding gear in the winter month rather than trope it around the house but space was too tight unless we changed a lot of thing. We wanted to use the kitchen company to fit it out to match the kitchen as well but they didn't do bathrooms as well but was happy to give it a go. The plan was to have the hot water tank, boiler above the washing machine, butler sink and toilet all in one room rough in this order. The plumber want the boiler and hot water tank swopped over the other way but this would look mess and not really work well. The other issue was the flue of the boiler had to be 30cm away from any open window which it currently wasn't with left window panel opening. The kitchen company wasn't sure about spaces between all the items and how they were going to make a cupboard to fit everything (we even told them because we were happy with it that it could be more of a varchar than a working cupboard to make it all work together). Decisions were made, we would swop out the window to be a right panel opening to give the correct distance to the flue (and also allowed use to frost it at the same time) and make everything a use able as possible with a smaller sink and cupboard. The fit out started by the plumber with the kitchen company coming back to make something around it all work. I'm more than happy how it come out.
Pics to follow.
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